How did Sid Ahmed Ghlam become a terrorist?
On Wednesday, the question occupied the Special Assize Court for a long afternoon.
The opportunity to twist the neck to journalistic formulas that often maintain confusion and suffering.
No offense to some, the Ghlam affair is not that of a
“failed”
attack
by a
“terrorist apprentice”
.
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If the faithful escaped carnage in a church in Villejuif on Sunday April 19, 2015, the attack caused the death of Aurélie Châtelain, 32 years old.
As for the “apprentice Ghlam”, he was on file S, targeted by an Algerian arrest warrant for terrorism, in contact with senior Daesh officials and had visited Turkey twice, and perhaps Syria. , to take his instructions.
Clearly, Ghlam was no more an apprentice than Amedy Coulibaly or the Abdeslam brothers and his terrorist curriculum seems even more successful than theirs.
Failed student
The accused explained his life before April 19, 2015. The voice is posed with a slight touch of accent, the perfect expression.
And we thus discover a terrorist who has nothing to reproach his family:
"I had a serene and calm childhood and adolescence."
Nor to France:
"I had a family and societal bond
," he replies to Me Chemla, lawyer for civil parties, who asks him about his relationship with France, "
I had no difficulty living in society. French
.
"
Ghlam would, indeed, difficult to play the victim: he granted family reunification and got a carefree residence permit.
At the start of 2015, this failed student still benefited from university accommodation, a monthly grant of 418 euros and housing assistance of 199 euros.
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Why then want to kill in France?
The accused speaks of radicalization from the summer of 2014, during an Algerian stay in his native town of Tiaret, passing by one of the strongholds of Islamist terrorists in the 1990s. He also mentions a video of he atrocities committed by the Syrian army, viewed in Turkey in 2015, which “broke” it and convinced it to carry out a massacre in France… The explanation is a little short but the Court will have to be satisfied with it.
Throughout his speech, the accused remained neutral, withdrawn, almost cold.
"We are October 7, 2020, does that ring a bell?
»Asked him at the end of the hearing Me Casubolo-Ferro, lawyer of Châtelain and AFVT.
“No nothing, what is it?” “The president reminded us, Aurélie Châtelain would be 38 years old today.
"And Ghlam to recover:"
Yes that, I remembered well. "